The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-04
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July 2, July 3, July A,
1897. 1886. 1885.
Local and state Notes.

Total movement. ~. 755I Ia, 697I IL sos
Local and State Notes.
John A. Quinn has been appointed master
mechanic of the Cairo, Vincennes q Chicago
road, vice T. w. Staff resigned.
Z. E. Fleming, division freight agent of the
Jacksonv willie g. Southeastern road, has resigned
TO accept position on the Wabash.
In railroad circles ii is thought that S. r. Cal
loway late general manager OF the Union Pa
cifc, will soon be given an important position on
the Wabash system.
The c., II. e. d. people have under contempla-
ticn a line of through sleeping cars between In
annapolis and Detroit. Some action will be
ZEN in the matter early this week.
The large inquiry for to load with grain
B. ship to the lake elevators indics tes that the
grain crops are to be largely moved via Detroit
Toledo Cleveland, and Sandusky, as was the
case the last year.
In the two months ending June 80, the c., T.,
St L. & @. road brought into this station l. 148
Iar-loads OF stone for building purposes and
pther improvements against 457 in the CORE
ponding period of 1886.
The report that Henry S. Ives had an interview
last week with President Roberts, of the Penn
tylvania lines, is emphatically denied by Mr..
Roberts himself, who says he is giving the Bal
timore e. Ohio deal no attention.
The interest paid on railroad bonds on July
amounted TO 500, 000 600 in round mum bers and
the amount paid out in dividends to SIS 1853. 600.
More roads paid the interest their bonds and
declared dividends than in any July or January
since 1873.
George r. Blanchard chairman of the Central
Traffic Association, in New York, has
called a meeting of the general freight agents of
the roads in the association, to be held at Chi
cago July g. Subjects of Importance to
be discussed and acted upon.
Rumor has 1t that during the present week
the finishing touches will be put on the sale Of
the Evansville 81 Terre Haute and the Evans
vile & Indianapolis roads TO the Chicago q In
diana Coal Road Company. This deal has now
been on for about sixty days.
The Pennsylvania is now building a new
style tender for their heavy-class engines,
which roomy enough for family of respect
able size to dwell in. They will hold water suf
6cient to run locomotive fifty miles, if neces-
sary, while hauling a heavy train.
The steps taken by the Lake Shore, Michigan
Central and the N. Y, p. e. 0. the 1, 900 mile
tickets is looked upon asia move to make two
tents per mile the rate on all roads. discarding
wholly tickets of all classes except first-class.
They will then charge extra tor chair. car and
seepinR-coach accommodations
w. FL. Coleman has been appointed travelling
freight agent of the Vandalia lines. George E.
Harrington is to be known as the general agent
Df the freight department, with headquarters at
Terre Haute not assistant general freight agent,
at first stated. His duties however. are
much the same as were those of j. r. Kendall
The imp preston that Austin Corbin is to be
made president of the Baltimore Sc Ohio road on
Mr. CARROTS retirement grows out of the fact
that Alfred Sully is interested in the deal and
was instrumental in putting Mr.. Corbin in
president of the Philadelphia & Reading road.
another deal in which he Mr.. Sully) was largely
interested.
Chairman Geo. l.. Carman, who was deprived
Of occupation by the abolition of the Iowa, MIN
nesota 81 Dakota Railway Association, on
Wednesday, has been appointed commissioner
of the Western Railway Weighing Association
He will also take charge of the Northwestern
inspection bureau now presided over by Chair
man Faithern.
C. G. Waite. vice president and general mana.
GER of the c., Fl. & d. and the Vandalia re-
turned from New York last night, and will to-
morrow take up the question of Superintendent
Nelson making Indianapolis his headquarters.
Mr.. Waite will doubtless coincide with Mr.. Neil
son in his views that Indianapolis is the best
point for him to be located at
Ora wfordsville is beginning to move in earn
est in the matter of securing the Indiana Mid s.
land road now building west ward from Lebanon.
A committee waited upon Harry Crawford day
or two ago to see what was necessary to be done
on the part of Charlottesville to secure the road.
Mr.. Crawford talked subsidy strongly. and the
committee expressed the opinion that a small
ono would be given
Excellent results are shown from the weighing
Of freights, Although but very small per cent
of the loaded cars weighed, as only those
which are thought to be overloaded are subjected
TO weighing the report of J. E. Eckman, in
spector. for the month of June. shows a gain of
6.6l7 S54 pounds in carload freights and of 919.-
boo in platform freight making total gain of
1887 400 pounds.
The business men of Evansville have come to
the conclusion that the city of ansville has
been Disseminated against in freight rates, and
they have chosen a committee to look into the
matter and see what can be dore in the way of
relief. The only apparent relief is for some rail-
road company to run trains in there over a road
in which j. ID. Mackey Is not interested on
which he does not control the rates.
Before the present month closes every bridge
of Importance on the c., l., St l.. g. q. road will
have been reconstructed of iron and steel. There
Is not a road in the country of the length CT the
''Big Four" on which much money has been
invested in bridges in the last few years as on
this one The Bee-line has also expended q
large sum of money in the last tw years in
building bridges, and now has contracts out for
nearly two thousand feet of the best quality of
iron and steel bridges
Passenger conductors have struck another bad
month. On Friday last conductors Burke,
Porter. Ballew and Admiral, of the Chicago 81
Eastern Illinois, dropped from the pay
rolls and freight conductors appointed 10 their
positions, and il is said that two more to go.
All of them had been the road twelve to ff-
teen years, aud the notice of their dismissal was
much of a surprise Four conductors on the
New York Central and two or the Lake Shore
were also dropped last week.
roads are troubled 70 get steel rails 60 make
ths improvements they desire this year. The
Lake Erie a. Western wish to lay with good steel
Peru and Michigan City but it 10 questionable
The mill men say there has been no check to rail-
roaG construction and tho capacity Of the mills
- sold largely for the next five months aud